Power Out Map
– 0% of Kittson out 0 customers out in Minnesota

Power outage history

Kittson County Minnesota

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Apr 23, 2022 9% of customers out · 90% back in 29 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 29hours Apr 23, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 14% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 2,662 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Kittson's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Kittson, hours without power per customer

KittsonUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 US 6.6 MN 2.9

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Apr 23, 2022 No storm report 240 9% 29 h 29 h 6.8k
Apr 7, 2022 No storm report 142 5% 17 h 17 h 2.4k
Aug 20, 2020 Thunderstorms 672 25% 7.5 h 7.2 h 2.2k
Aug 5, 2024 No storm report 600 23% 3.0 h 3.0 h 1.8k
May 20, 2023 No storm report 141 5% 8.8 h 8.8 h 1.2k
Dec 19, 2025 No storm report 146 5% 6.5 h 2.2 h 762
Jun 24, 2024 No storm report 197 7% 3.8 h 3.8 h 739
Apr 22, 2022 No storm report 240 9% 2.8 h 15 h 660
Jul 22, 2024 Thunderstorms 232 9% 2.8 h 3.5 h 638
Jun 17, 2020 Thunderstorms 256 10% 6.2 h 6.2 h 631
Oct 26, 2025 No storm report 480 18% 1.2 h 2.5 h 600
Nov 21, 2020 No storm report 240 9% 2.5 h 2.5 h 600

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +8h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Kittson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 86%
  • Thunderstorms 14%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Kittson

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Minnesota territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
P K M Electric Coop, Inc MN 84 84 0.21 13.3 71k
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 557 136 1.74 11.3 50k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Minnesota

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Minnesota counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 2,662 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →